Vitamin A deficiency is a public health problem in Ethiopia. It affects vision, growth, tissue
differentiation, reproduction and immune system. Carrot varieties are known to contain high
amount of β-carotene which is the ...

An Ethnobotanical study was conducted to document medicinal plants used by Local people and
their indigenous knowledge in Machakel District, East Gojjam Zone of the Amhara Regional
State. The study was conducted by ...

Frying is the most commonly used cooking method in food preparation. Continuously frying food items at high temperature will result in frying oil and fried food quality deterioration. in this study as an alternative option ...

Iron deficiency is prevalent in Ethiopia despite high dietary intake. The contribution of iron from
extrinsic sources from soil contamination during threshing is likely to be high. However, the
actual bioavailability of ...

Food contains a wide range of essential metallic and other mineral elements like zinc, selenium (Se), mercury (Hg), chromium (Cr). The presence of such minerals in food matrix has positive and negative impact on the consumer. ...

The study area is found in western Ethiopia in Oromia Region State Mugher area. It is covered by mostly sedimentary and few volcanic rocks. In open pit mining method most of the time the excavation process is mostly so ...

Over the past few years private dairy processing industries have flourished and as a result the volume of domestic commercial pasteurized milk supplied to the urban market particularly to the capital has increased. However ...

Rumex abyssinicus Jacq (Polygonaceae) is a perennial herb that is widely distributed in the highlands from North Africa to Ethiopia. In the Ethiopian traditional medicine, the rhizomes of R. abyssinicus (“Mekmeko” in ...

Traditionally, the hot water extract of Koroso fish (Oreochromis niloticus) has been used as a nourishing tonic soup and as an aid for recovery from physical fatigue. In this study, we investigated the antifatigue effects ...

Background: Measurement of length at birth, or in the neonatal period, is challenging and not validated. But linear growth retardation often begins inutero, and continues through the first 1,000 days of life. Objectives: ...

This Research study basically examined and analyzed the effect and result of food aid on
household food security in Agege local government area, Lagos in Nigeria. The region
was chosen because it goes through so many ...

Urban agriculture in Addis Ababa city is being implemented by the small holder individual farmers, micro and small enterprises, and the large scale cooperatives for different reasons.
Urban agriculture is among those socio ...

Household Food insecurity is one of the major challenges of the country in general and the pepper livelihoods of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples these days. However, there is inadequate information on The ...

Microbial food contamination is an on-going limiting factor in crop production that can
determine the shelf life of processed and unprocessed foods. Spice plants and herbs are
commonly used as food flavoring and seasoning ...

Background: Anemia is a public health problem affecting almost 300 million preschool children in the world wide. However, the magnitude is particularly higher in developing countries. Studies demonstrated that children ...

The main objective of this study was to examine the food security situation, the various
constraints of food security and the coping strategies of Borana Pastoral communities.
Eighty six households were taken as samples ...

The central theme of this study was to explore household food security situation in Girar Jarso
woreda. To do so, various data collection and analysis methods were used. The necessary data
were generated both from primary ...

The question of shelter has become more crucial with the rapid urbanization we see
today. Developing countries such as Ethiopia have paid too little attention to the shelter
problem and how deeply rooted it is in matters ...

With the development of Web 2.0 and the launch of Web Sites like Flickr, sharing
and collaboratively annotating images(tagging in Folksonomies) with keywords,
called tags, are becoming very popular. Although tagging ...